Not nearly enough companies produce fragrances without phthalates. I don't care if scents don't stick around, I can reapply! I mean, if that's all that phthalates are doing... get rid of them, no one needs to smell like Davidoff Cool Water for 72 hours.

small molecules

I wish, in any discussion where Terry Richardson is relevant, they’d push more to get people to say he’s really a piece of shit who doesn’t deserve to do what he does.

And the indignity of being in commercials for an objectively terribly iphone game!

I do wish she would publicly state that she still has a problem with him and him releasing that video. Saying it’s ok now because you get gigs and make a lot of money is a little gross. Or maybe his disgusting behavior really doesn’t bother her.

I feel like Alexa Chung definitely missed an opportunity to discuss how creepy it is that Terry Richardson published the video without Kate Upton’s consent. If I was conducting the interview, I would’ve touched on it more, especially since Upton was a teenager during that time and the video allowed her to be…

Poor kid. Fame is weird. I doubt my own accomplishments everyday. Did I really deserve that break? Was I better than the other applicant, or did I benefit from privilege? I can’t imagine how much more difficult the project of being both proud and truthful about one’s life becomes when Terry Richardson violating you is…

For your wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine…

Never underestimate the power of the phrase "it's traditional"

I know a lot of white girls who move to Japan dreaming of working in hostess bars. I truly do not understand the appeal.

"The mizu shobai woman," writes Anne Allison in her book on hostess clubs, "is constructed as a female who transgresses her nature."

I don't have much to contribute other than to say this was really well written and I enjoyed reading it. You must be so brave to look that kind of fear in its eye and keep going. Thanks for sharing!

If anyone is interested, the book The People Who Eat Darkness covers Lucie Blackman's murder and goes into detail on the scene the author describes, without slandering Lucie or being totally exoticizing. I read it last month when I was on a true crime binge.